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Welcome to the Morphbank Users Manual V 2.7

This online manual focuses on detailed directions for navigating and populating the Morphbank online database. Last update of this documentation was made December 2007 reflecting the latest software release of Morphbank version 2.7.

Quick videos: These videos (AVI) are made to help users with common tasks. We will add new videos as they are made. Some contain audio and others do not...
  • How to publish multiple collections from the MyManager: video
  • How to Create a Collection from the MyManager: video
  • How to Submit a Specimen: video
  • How to Edit date to publish for lots of images: video
  • How to Annotate a taxon name: video
  • How to Edit an image, replacing one image with another: video
  • How to Add a Taxon Name to Morphbank:video

Contributors to the Morphbank User Manual: Wilfredo Blanco, Christopher Cprek, Andy Deans, Cynthia Gaitros, David Gaitros, Neelima Jammigumpula, Karolina Maneva-Jakimoska, Austin Mast, Debbie Paul, Greg Riccardi, Fredrik Ronquist, Katja Seltmann, Steve Winner

Contents


User Manual Hints
System Requirements
Users and Their Privileges
Guide to Graphic Buttons
Morphbank Terms and Definitions
Screen Use Tips
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Add New Taxon Name and Id Number
Information Linking
External Linking - Internal Linking
Morphbank Show
FSI Viewer

Specific Guide to Login, My Manager, Browse, Search, Data Submit and Edit, and Mirrors
Getting Started
Login
   Login - Username, Password & New Accounts
   Login - Update User Account Information
Select Groups
My Manager (Beta Version)
  New Features - Keyword Search, Limit Search by, & Select Mass Operation
     My Manager - All tab
     My Manager - Images tab
     My Manager - Specimens tab
     My Manager - Views tab
     My Manager - Localities tab
     My Manager - Taxa tab
     My Manager - Collections tab
          What is a Collection?
          How to make a Collection
          A Sample Collection
          Character Collections
     Annotations tab
          What is an Annotation? / Types of Annotations
          Annotation - Add
          Annotation - Edit
          Annotation - Record Show
          Annotation - Taxon Names
     Publications
Browse
     Browse - Images
     Browse - Taxon Hierarchy
     Browse - Taxon Names
     Browse - Views
     Browse - Specimens
     Browse - Localities
     Browse - Collections
     Browse - Publications
     Browse - Sort Search Results
Search - Simple or Keyword/Id
Preparing to Submit
Upload (Submit)
     Add Locality
     Add Specimen
     Add View
     Add Image
     Add Publication
     Add Taxon Name
Edit - (Locality, Specimen, View, Image)
     Edit - Annotations
     Edit - Collections
     Edit - Taxon Name
     Edit - Publications
Mirrors